FAITH JEAN, Marshfield: Trump takes DACA hostages for his wall

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Sep 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM

TO THE EDITOR:

President Donald Trump is holding the lives of 800,000 law-abiding young people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program hostage for taxpayer funds to “build the wall”. If the money is not received, the hostages will be deported even though they were brought here as children. They are now students or are employed, or are serving in the military. They are not eligible for any welfare benefits. They supplied their personal information to our government, believing in our country. How long are the Republicans going to let this go on? What kind of a country have we become in just eight short months?Trump has slyly made Congress responsible for DACA. He could have done nothing, just left the program in place. Nothing required him to act, but he wants taxpayer funds to build the wall, so he decided to take human hostages. And his signature is required on any DACA legislation. Republicans continue to enable him in this criminal behavior, as if it were a normal thing. Repulsive.

There is one way to save them, but it requires courage: pass a quick, clean bill to preserve those already on DACA.

FAITH JEAN

Marshfield

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